Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Pierre Jacques Gaultier” — 24 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Bathsheba at her bath, with attendants surrounding her
Pierre Jacques Gaultier · ca. 1740

Jacques Gaultier
Jan Lievens · 17th century

Jacques Gaultier
Jan Lievens · 17th century

Disegni intagliati in rame di pitture antiche ritrovate nelle scavazioni di Resina
Francesco Sesoni · 1746

Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1765

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788

The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787

Pair of candlesticks
Jacques-Pierre Marteau · 1775

Panchrestographie & Poecilographie
Jean de Beaugrand · July 30, 1604

Powder Flask of Jacques de Silly (1513–1571)
Artist not stated in the record · 1568

Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon
Pierre-Adrien Paris · ca. 1777–80

Pierre and Jacques Dupuy
Robert Nanteuil · ca. 1648–49
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 782 matched · 24 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 13:41 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.